Hunter Douglas is the world’s leading manufacturer of window coverings and a major manufacturer of architectural products. We are a brand that you know and trust. With more than 100 years of innovation, we’ve defined our industry with proprietary products that deliver revolutionary style and functionality and can be found in millions of homes and commercial buildings globally.
We are searching for candidates that are driven, intelligent, creative, and entrepreneurial. By offering challenging and accelerated opportunities for growth, powered by a shared hunger for success, we create a space for your career to thrive. In return for your expertise, we are committed to providing competitive and robust total compensation and benefit packages to ensure you feel valued. Our dream is to become the fastest growing, most loved, window covering company in the world. What’s yours?
We operate as a centralised, global federation of small and medium-sized companies, supported by Hunter Douglas EMEA, which has developed several IT systems to assist our European businesses in selling and producing make-to-measure window coverings for dealers, resellers, and consumers.
Position overview
You will serve as the Product Owner for ‘Dealer Connect’, a strategic product supporting dealers in the sales and purchasing process of custom Hunter Douglas window coverings. This role sits within our IT organization, reporting directly to the Head of Supply Chain IT for EMEA. This is a hybrid position, working 5 days per week, and requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office.
Team & Product Context
- Collaborate within a cross-functional team of approximately 15 members, including an Architect, Scrum Master, QA, and Developers.
- The team is partly based in Rotterdam with near-shore support within Europe.
- Dealer Connect is a critical B2B platform, directly impacting dealer success and customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the Dealer Connect product vision, roadmap, and backlog.
- Lead the development team to deliver valuable, timely, and technically sound solutions.
- Align priorities across teams and manage cross-functional dependencies.
- Maintain productive relationships with stakeholders from various divisions, HD companies, and dealers.
- Ensure alignment with business goals, technology strategy, and user needs.
- Drive roadmap planning, budget awareness, and feature delivery.
Interested in this role? Here’s what we’re looking for -
- Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Product Owner or in a comparable role within an agile development environment.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage backlogs.
- Familiarity with technologies such as MS Azure, C#, SQL Server, Angular, and an understanding of AI-based solutions.
- Strong stakeholder management and prioritization skills.
Skills -
- Solid understanding of Agile development methodologies.
- Clear long-term vision and roadmap definition skills.
- Excellent English communication skills (written and spoken).
- Budget-minded and delivery-driven mindset.
- Communicate effectively through clear storytelling and structured presentations.
Personal Attributes -
- Performance and results driven, thriving within a high performing culture.
- Experience of successfully operating within a fast paced, agile environment.
- Leadership qualities with the ability to motivate and align a distributed team.
- Strong customer and digital mindset – always focused on creating real value.
- Thrives in a multi-cultural, international context.
- Sense of urgency, accountability, and a coachable attitude.
- Ability to operate in a corporate, private equity-owned environment.
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What We Do
Hunter Douglas offers premium, intelligent window fashions that beautifully transform natural light and enhance your home's interiors. Our products are thoughtfully engineered to craft your perfect light, and many designs offer additional energy efficiency and child safety benefits. A versatile product portfolio and broad selection of innovative operating systems—including advanced automation—allow you to effortlessly choose the look you desire and how your window treatments function.
